Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Committee on Housing and Homelessness

Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and the County and City Management Association

10:30 am

Mr. Billy Coman:

It is the 5,000 incentivisation. I am not a fan of it because I saw the damage it did. I will not use the term "incentivise". Let us kick-start a private development because it is part of the solution. We have to consider innovative ways of trying to make it happen.

We can gain from Part V units that are built to rent. Perhaps local authorities could play a role in that, along with the Department. Collaboration with the Department has improved. A number of staged approvals have happened more quickly in South Dublin, but we need to work much more closely together to speed things up. It takes time to build units and not everything can happen within 12 months.